Abstract:Federal conservation reserve programs such as CP33, Habitat Buffers for Upland Birds, are designed to conserve grassland birds on working farmland by adding herbaceous crop field borders. However, farmers are naturally concerned about the impact of such borders on crop yields and profits. We conducted three years (2000‐2002) of field studies in mid‐Missouri to assess the impact of various compositions of herbaceous field borders on yield in adjacent corn fields. Border treatments of (i) a mixture of warm‐seaso… Show more
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